Tag: Security & Cross-Cutting Concerns

A Service Template is a ready-made skeleton repository that every new microservice starts from.

A Microservice Chassis is a shared, versioned starter library (in .NET: a NuGet package, or a small set of them) that every service references so that logging, tracing, metrics, health checks, authentication, error...

Externalized Configuration means the compiled artifact (a container image or a published build) contains no environment-specific settings and no secrets.

The Access Token pattern means the caller's identity is verified once, at the edge (API Gateway or identity provider), and the result is captured in a signed, short-lived token (usually a JWT).